Category: News

UK-based techno promoters On the 5th Day have announced they will launch a new label venture this year. Run by Katie Arnold, Egle Sukliauskaite, and Mantas Jankauskas, the collective is known for hosting monthly events at London’s Corsica Studios, as well as a podcast stream featuring underground artists like Ness, Korridor, and Takaaki Itoh–to name a few. The label has […]

Acousmatique Recordings is a San Francisco-based label started in 2017 by the sound artist and synthesist Jack Hertz. Hertz, real name, Jack Hurwitz, is an insanely prolific musician with–by our count–sixty long-players out since 2010 on various labels like Treetrunk Records, Buddhist On Fire, and Aural Films. Utilizing analog machines, effects processing, and field recordings to create a “sonic middle […]

The Italian electronic label Infidel Bodies returns this coming February with Viktor Kalima‘s limited edition cassette release Club Muscle. The Finnish producer, real name Mikko Virtala, has also worked under the monikers Noir Hour and SEXFORSELFHELP, as well as in the duos CSD and New Sincerity with the musicians Olof Cotard and Eero Pulkkinen, respectively. Kalima had a track on […]

Keyboardist/pianist Thollem McDonas recently posted to Bandcamp nine compilation albums featuring selections from his solo piano and electronic work, as well as in various ensembles including duos, trios, and quartets with over a hundred different collaborators. Collecting together tracks from his nearly 60 album releases, among the collection you will also find a Best Of compilation dedicated to his efforts […]

Chicago label Girlsville Records is readying their Our Voltage punk compilation for a limited edition CD release on March 1st, and proceeds will fund legal aid for anti-racist activists and a new community self-defense gym in Chicago called Haymaker. The DIY label launched in 2015 with the release of their Stupid Punk Boy comp., a benefit for Chicago’s TransLife Center […]

Today’s news from Dirty Water Records comes with an FCC Warning about “heavy sex, drugs and anti-social references”–which means it’s right up our alley. New Zealand miscreants The Cavemen dropped their glue huffing, beer guzzling self-titled debut back in 2015 and the now legendary celebration of excess and debauchery is being re-released on January 30th via the punk label Dirty […]

Terminal Mind was a first generation Austin punk band that formed in 1978. The group was started by bassist/vocalist Steve Marsh and brothers Doug and Greg Murray on guitar and drums respectively, before going on to add synthesizer player Jack Crow to the fold. During their short existence between 1978 and 1981, Terminal Mind would share the stage with Iggy […]